Another busy morning

Yes, yet another morning filled with answering virus questions, hooking things up, looking up details, tracking down failures, etc. (aka yet another day in IT!) But I just wanted to take a moment and share DNS Report, especially the mail test. It comes in handy when you don’t get direct access to your ISP’s mail server and you want to track down why a specific account keeps bouncing to you. I entered the email address someone was having problems getting email to, and it ran a mail test and came back with the answer. The server was unreachable. Later, I checked again, and it was reachable, so I advised that person to go ahead and send their mail now! There’s lots of other tools linked there as well.

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